You have to add the Health Care amendment and the dignified meaningful employment amendment.
My son is 3 and a half yrs old. I mean to teach him critical thinking and I’ll convey to him that I expect him to stand and deliver WHENEVER he thinks Truth is being played with. Now, what in the hell kind of constant strife and battle am I starting up for this poor kid. It’s one thing for ME to go around getting tough with everybody but how much can one expect of a kid who is constantly at odds with his world? Young Winston Churchill was a natural at it even in grade school but look at what an extraordinary personality he was.
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Dat constipashun thingy is rel old an neds ta be replasted spshuly da sucund mendment. guns kell.
I gratumated frum on uf da erli comun corpse skuls and gots a grate job rite awey. Als I hadda du was lurn a frekuentli usd fras “U want fryes wid dat?”
The smart kids would be directed to repeal the 16th and 17th immediately.
The teachers heads would be exploding.
Teaching kids who can barely read or write (or wipe their noses or asses, for that matter) to remove two “amendments” (a word 90% of 6th graders wouldn’t know) from a Constitution they cannot possibly understand... ‘2’ guesses which Amendment they want the kids to remove?
The whole idea that education needs to be dictated from DC is bizarro
They did not learn the basics before moving to analyzing, the same thing in all the subjects . The kids will not understand anything if they graduate from this
A challenge, but probably the politically correct answer and the one that will give you highest marks is the First and the Tenth.
I’d love to see their reaction to a suggestion that the kids also decide which two enumerated powers they’d remove from Article I, Sec 8.
Omit two: an easy choice for today’s liberal-educated kids - the Second Amendment, because guns are “scary”; and the Tenth Amendment, because “states rights” is simple code for racism and all other evil things, like gun rights and bans on gay marriage.
Why not ask the little beggars to think about the Constitution? The Founders provided a mechanism for its amendment and that is often discussed on FR.
I'm not in favor of Common Core because I don't like federal educational standards, but let's not go crazy about it.
I read FR every day, so I know about all these terrible things going on in those OTHER public schools. Thankfully, the schools that my kids go to are WONDERFUL and would NEVER think of pulling a stunt like that. It’s only those OTHER SCHOOLS that have the problems.
(how FReepers rationalize sending their kids to public schools)
“Omit two and add two amendments to the Bill of Rights”
That’s easy. The BOR is retained, but 16th and 17th are omitted.
The new ones are balanced budget amendment, and congressional term limits.
All via article V.
But, I’d bet, for this assignment I’d get an “F”.
Remove Communist Core from your life.
live - free - republic
Whoever wrote that seem oblivious (or pretends to be) when dealing with sixth grade students(!) that the statement is not fact but fantasy; "let's pretend..." would be an honest introductory phrase were it not for the more egregious reality that if the real world politicians, from the president, and both houses of congress on down either are more ignorant functionally than sixth graders, or pretend to be while pushing arbitrary tyranny on the citizens.
Aside from that it is stupidity or ignorance to imply or suggest to children that changing the ruling documents of a 200-year-old Constitutional Republic requires no more thought and reflection that an exercise by 11-year-olds.
If my child brought home that assignment, I would sue the teacher personally, the Principal, personally, and the School District collectively for child abuse.
And demand damages for the utter waste of educational tax funds.
Another reason to homeschool!
Bookmark.
A better assignment would have involved removing all but two.
terrible assignment.
But there is one amendment that IMO should be repealed, and that’s amendment 16.